MKSP: 111 The Final Verdict
Michael Knight Sex Project: 111 The Final Verdict
What I remember of this episode is that it's basically a McGuffin plot--with a nebbishy accountant as the McGuffin. Michael needs to take him to court to testify, but there are cops and bad guys after him as well. There is a GotW, but she's hardly in it (not her fault, she's in jail most of the episode), though if I remember right Michael has more of a chance with her than with some of the ones that are in the whole episode.
It doesn't have a ton of Michael/KITT interaction, but what it has is squeeful. There's just not as much of it as there should be.
--LOL! Here's the semi parked on that Exact Same Road again. :D The people who live along this road are going to start charging them rent to park the semi there.
--KITT's got a brand new feature--he can construct a composite drawing based on a verbal description. Handy that. :D Though somehow they programmed it into the computer on the semi and, erm, KITT picked it up by osmosis or something. Bonnie's telling him he has it as soon as he drives onto the semi. Of course, I've never tried to figure out how KITT's CPU actually *works*.
--Devon's trying to give Michael his new case, but Michael's reluctant about taking it. Michael: "I've got a problem." Devon: "My dear boy, don't be so modest. You've got a wide range of problems." Heee! :D
--Michael's reluctance to take the case is because he got a call from the GotW, Cheryl Burns, who's in jail there and asked Michael to help her out. Michael describes her as 'a good friend'.
--Devon gives Michael two days to help Cheryl out, and then he's supposed to be on the official case.
--Oh, that's an attractive road. I'd love to drive along that under all the pine trees. And of course KITT's gorgeous.
--Poor Cheryl's in prison hell with a whole bunch of incredibly obnoxious (and loud) prisoners yelling and whooping as she's being taken out to see her visitor.
--And the first thing she does when she sees Michael is, basically, cling to him. And OMG Michael gives such good hug--he's holding her and *rocking* her and it's really terribly sweet. Apparently Michael gives *good* comfort.
--Cheryl's a little distraught so it's hard to get a good 'cap of her. This is the best I can do.
--Cheryl's in jail for murdering her boss and no one with the police will listen to her when she says she didn't. Michael, being a really *nice* guy, gives her the greatest gift of all listens to her and *believes* her when she says she didn't do it.
--When did Michael meet this chick, by the way? He's only been Michael Knight for a few months, maybe as much as six or eight months (this show is annoyingly timeless). She might be from one of the cases that we haven't seen (we know that there are some cases off-screen, so to speak, because we see hints of them) and certainly her name seemed to mean something to Devon.
--OMG!! ::collapses in a puddle:: If I were having a major life crisis, I think he would make me feel a lot better just by being there and looking, you know, *concerned*. And gorgeous.
--Okay, so the only person who can vouch for Cheryl and prove she didn't murder her skeezer boss (he was sexually harassing her and pawing at her and she ran out of his office) is a dude named "Marty" she met at a bar. He's an accountant who likes to gamble.
--Definitely I'd be forgetting at least a few of my problems long about now. (Very similar to the previous 'cap, sorry. But so *yummy*!)
--Hmmm...he's calling her "baby" pretty consistently in this scene, which isn't my favorite nickname for a guy to use for me, though in this situation, I could probably deal with it. And when she asks what he'll do if he can't find Marty and get her out of there he says "I'll rob a bank and get tossed in here and we'll have a beautiful co-ed cell together." Which is really bizarre emotionally, in my opinion. What a weird way to comfort her. Though, on pondering it, I'm not sure what else he could say that would be better. He could say "I'd bust you out" but there's a guard in the room with them and Michael was a cop, he knows exactly how poorly that would go over. So he gave her the assurance that she's not alone without saying something that would trip a red flag in the guards. I supposed that does make some sense.
--The bar is called the "Bent Arm" because there are sweaty grunting dudes arm-wrestling in it. I'm not kidding about the grunting. It's nearly indecent.
--Ooooooooo!!
--Michael goes to the rather exotic looking bartender, Kim, orders a beer and asks about Marty, but she denies knowing him. When Michael presses a little, saying that he owes Marty money, she basically handed him over to Butch, the grunting arm-wrestling champion. Hee!
--The bartender's not particularly subtle and goes to the phone right there behind the bar in front of god and everyone to call *someone* as soon as Michael's back is almost turned. So he tells KITT to get the number on the outgoing call.
--Heee!! Michael's totally losing the arm wrestling match when KITT speaks up through the comlink, startling Butch and giving Michael his chance to win. :D
--I think that's a new belt buckle. I've never noticed it having a "K" on it before and I've been ::koff:: paying a certain amount of attention to it. Just, you know, in the interest of, erm, research, yeah...oh, who am I kidding?
--Mmmmm!!
--I absolutely love them riding along and Michael just letting KITT drive. :D That's a Thing Of Great Happiness.
--So they go haring off 400+ miles to see who's at the address associated with the number the bartender called. It's a thin lead, but the only one they've got.
--Michael: "Besides it's a beautiful day for a drive." Then he leans back and closes his eyes, letting KITT handle it. EEee!! I love that! :D
--Eeee!! They're cutting a hundred miles off the trip by cutting across the desert on a dirt road that they're going 160 miles an hour on. :D Eee! (Which in Montana, at least today, would be perfectly legal. Montana's dirt roads don't have a speed limit--the only restraint on how fast you can go is how much abuse your tires can take.)
--So they met with Cheryl in Albuquerque and went 450 or so miles to a town that's on the coast with a big port area. There's no ocean 450 miles from Albuquerque, is there? Looking at a map, I'd say at *least* 600 miles.
--This is Marty. He's a whiny schlemiel. Here he's with the cops, whining about how he wants to go home now. We'll see a lot of Marty.
--These are the cops. For a change in this show they're neither useless nor corrupt. They're not *great* but certainly better than most other officers of the law KR gives us. Cop1:
--And Cop2 (who I keep wanting to call The Chin That Walks Like A Man):
--Apparently Marty is known for "creative" accounting and works for the Bad Guys. The cops are trying to do an Al Capone and get to the bad guy through his skeezy accounting practices. And his nebbishy accountant.
--Not only is Marty the McGuffin in the episode, everyone has a deadline. Michael's got 2 days to get this wrapped up and get onto the case Devon gave him. Cheryl's got an unspecified but *short* time before her case goes to trial (quoi??, shouldn't she have more time for the defense to prepare a case?). And Cop1 and The Chin have to get their case against Marty's Boss to the Grand Jury soon, again non-specified.
--Oh, yum...ever so very very yum.
--The hand at Michael's back in that previous 'cap is Cop1 holding a gun on him. They're all at Marty's door. Apparently Michael's mere presence at Marty's is suspicious enough for Cop1 to draw his firearm on an unarmed and un-resisting person. Huh. I might have to revise my opinion of the cops in this episode.
--::fans self::
--So Cop1's not believing Michael when Michael tells him why he was at Marty's door. And Cop1 can't be bothered to get off his high horse and call the damned police where Cheryl's being held to follow up on the veracity of it. Definitely revising my opinion.
--Yeah, Cop1's a total ass. He's not *corrupt*, but he's just a complete jackass.
--And, here's the last of our cast of characters--Al, the Bad Guy and Marty's employer. He's the owner of some sort of business, possibly shipping--they have a warehouse anyway--called Falcon Enterprises.
--Marty's trying to quit, but Al won't let him.
--Michael follows Marty into a health club, spends a moment ogling the girls doing aerobics, and then (after failing to get Marty to talk to him) runs into The Chin, who's a total tool and takes him to Cop1.
--And yay, KITT gets to use the Microwave Jammer toy that Bonnie gave him in the last episode. :D I do love that little bit of continuity. He's blowing the power to Al's business (Falcon Enterprises) so they're required to call in a maintenance guy. Which Michael's all dressed to pose as.
--EEEEe!! Michael: "Keep your micro jam going, okay KITT? I'll be back in a little while. Don't blow a fuse, huh?" KITT: "On the contrary, the sensation is quite intoxicating." Michael: "Well, try and stay sober until I get back." Eeee!! OMG I love it that KITT's capable of, erm, enjoying the sensation of using the micro jam. :D
--Ooooo!!
--The Goon in the foreground is Al's muscle. The reason I've capped this is because he's wearing this absolutely atrocious shirt (WTF is up with those sleeves, they wind out *flapping* hen he walks) and has this perfectly horrible stringy hair. And just, ick. This doesn't even show his face, which is not any more attractive than the rest of him. Basically, if I have to look at him, so do you. Sometimes I'm not a nice person.
--So Michael's experienced and has pretty good instincts, so he figured out from just a minute or two of talking to Marty that Falcon Enterprises is up to something shady and that's why the cops are interested in Marty. What he didn't know was that Al and the Goon were listening in.
--Somehow Michael convinces Marty to go with him, though they never show exactly how. Al and the Goon are trying to stop them. So we get a fight and chase in the factory with Al and the Goon on forklifts.
--Michael's calling for KITT to come help. :D I love that!! And I love that KITT busts through the loading dock door (and a great big stack of boxes) to save his ass. :D
--But in all the kerfuffle, the McGuffin got lost Marty gets away. Michael, the cops and Al all wind out looking for him.
--Here's my apology for making you look at the picture of the ugly Goon.
--Michael calls in to Devon to ask for another couple of days before he has to get to the case Devon gave him only to find that Cheryl's trial is the next day. And Michael's lost Marty and doesn't have any good leads to go on. Oh dear.
--Really, Marty isn't so much of a schlemiel as all that. He's pretending to be a bum sleeping on a park bench (with a newspaper over his face) watching as people come and go from his apartment (first it was Al and the Goon, then Cop1 and The Chin, Michael's on his way now). Pretty clever. He's whiny, spineless, and annoying and bad things happen to him, but he's not an idiot.
--Oooo!!
--So Michael's managed to get Marty on board with the idea of helping Cheryl out. His plan is for them to break into Falcon Enterprises and steal Marty's accounting books. Then they'll turn the books over to the cops and hopefully Cop1 will turn from a dick into a man and let Michael whisk Marty away to Albuquerque to testify on Cheryl's behalf.
--Eeeeee!! OMG! Michael: "KITT, when we go in, if we're not back in one hour call the police." KITT: "Be careful, Michael." Michael: "Aren't I always?" KITT: "You don't want me to answer that question." Eee!!
--Michael's trying to break into Falcon Enterprises with Marty, who's completely useless. In the process of getting Marty over the fence, Michael's com-link to KITT just got broken. Oh, dear.
--And KITT got spotted by a guard who called Al.
--LOL! Marty has a panic attack so Michael takes him "out of this environment" by having him close his eyes and imagine himself on a boat sailing around a tropical island with the girl of Marty's dreams (her name is Alice) on the bow and Marty's rubbing oil on her shoulders. LOL! And Marty's totally into this little fantasy and gets back with the program of opening the safe and stealing the books.
--Having been made by the guards and lost contact with Michael, KITT micro jams the electrical lock on the gate and drives into the Falcon Enterprises complex. My guess is that he's trying to get Michael in scanner range, though they never exactly say.
--While they were inside the sun came up. Oh dear.
--Heee!! KITT's right there when they walk outside, but so are Al and the Goon with guns on them. :D But KITT makes like the police are there and have the place surrounded and creates a distraction. Go KITT! :D
--Marty [looking at KITT's dash]: "What is all this?" Michael: "It's a computer, Marty." Marty: "But how does it manage to drive itself." Michael: "It just does." Hee!!
--Michael seems to be about at the end of his patience with whiny Marty. Not too surprising, so am I. He really is a bit of a loss.
--Marty: "And I suppose it talks too..." KITT: "On a variety of subjects. What do you care to discuss, Mr. Keen?"
--Oh, I wish I could get a better cap of Michael's smile as soon as KITT starts talking. Sot of a half smile, but there's so much in it. I love how much pleasure he takes in KITT. I really really do!
--So Michael calls Cop1 and The Chin on the police radio and arranges a meeting to hand over the books (with the implication that he's also handing over Marty, though that's not really his intention).
--Michael and Al are doing a fairly high speed chase through a residential area. They're just lucky it's awfully early in the morning and no one's really out yet.
--Now Marty's threatening to get car sick--causing both KITT and Michael some consternation.
--Michael's taking some care to lead Al and the Goon straight to the cops.
--Eeee!! Michael's pushing the Joy Button (aka Turbo Boost) again. He always gets the biggest grin. :D
--Oooo! Yum!
--And now that Michael's solved his case for him, Cop1's apologizing for being a dick and lets Michael take Marty to Albuquerque to testify in Cheryl's case.
--And we end with Michael, Cheryl and Marty back at the arm-wrestling bar. Michael and Cheryl start macking on each other leaving poor nebbishy Marty there feeling like a third wheel.
--And Michael gets manhandled by Butch the grunting armwrestler at the very end.
--::sniffs:: There's no KITT anywhere at the end here. I don't like that. I don't like that at all.
FINAL VERDICT: Given the way they were smooching with Marty right there, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Michael and Cheryl got it on after they wrapped up their celebration with Marty at the bar. At least assuming that Butch hasn't broken Michael's arm. What surprises me is what appears to be some significant emotional depth to a relationship that there's no reason to think is any more important than any of the other transient women in Michael's life. I suppose that if I'd been arrested for a crime I didn't commit and I met a guy I knew worked in something like private investigations (he posed as an insurance investigator for Robin in "Deadly Maneuvers"), I might call that person even if we weren't all that close. And crises do bring people closer, at least temporarily. It does seem a little weird though. Anyway, I'd be willing to call this one almost definite.
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What I remember of this episode is that it's basically a McGuffin plot--with a nebbishy accountant as the McGuffin. Michael needs to take him to court to testify, but there are cops and bad guys after him as well. There is a GotW, but she's hardly in it (not her fault, she's in jail most of the episode), though if I remember right Michael has more of a chance with her than with some of the ones that are in the whole episode.
It doesn't have a ton of Michael/KITT interaction, but what it has is squeeful. There's just not as much of it as there should be.
--LOL! Here's the semi parked on that Exact Same Road again. :D The people who live along this road are going to start charging them rent to park the semi there.
--KITT's got a brand new feature--he can construct a composite drawing based on a verbal description. Handy that. :D Though somehow they programmed it into the computer on the semi and, erm, KITT picked it up by osmosis or something. Bonnie's telling him he has it as soon as he drives onto the semi. Of course, I've never tried to figure out how KITT's CPU actually *works*.
--Devon's trying to give Michael his new case, but Michael's reluctant about taking it. Michael: "I've got a problem." Devon: "My dear boy, don't be so modest. You've got a wide range of problems." Heee! :D
--Michael's reluctance to take the case is because he got a call from the GotW, Cheryl Burns, who's in jail there and asked Michael to help her out. Michael describes her as 'a good friend'.
--Devon gives Michael two days to help Cheryl out, and then he's supposed to be on the official case.
--Oh, that's an attractive road. I'd love to drive along that under all the pine trees. And of course KITT's gorgeous.
--Poor Cheryl's in prison hell with a whole bunch of incredibly obnoxious (and loud) prisoners yelling and whooping as she's being taken out to see her visitor.
--And the first thing she does when she sees Michael is, basically, cling to him. And OMG Michael gives such good hug--he's holding her and *rocking* her and it's really terribly sweet. Apparently Michael gives *good* comfort.
--Cheryl's a little distraught so it's hard to get a good 'cap of her. This is the best I can do.
--Cheryl's in jail for murdering her boss and no one with the police will listen to her when she says she didn't. Michael, being a really *nice* guy, gives her the greatest gift of all listens to her and *believes* her when she says she didn't do it.
--When did Michael meet this chick, by the way? He's only been Michael Knight for a few months, maybe as much as six or eight months (this show is annoyingly timeless). She might be from one of the cases that we haven't seen (we know that there are some cases off-screen, so to speak, because we see hints of them) and certainly her name seemed to mean something to Devon.
--OMG!! ::collapses in a puddle:: If I were having a major life crisis, I think he would make me feel a lot better just by being there and looking, you know, *concerned*. And gorgeous.
--Okay, so the only person who can vouch for Cheryl and prove she didn't murder her skeezer boss (he was sexually harassing her and pawing at her and she ran out of his office) is a dude named "Marty" she met at a bar. He's an accountant who likes to gamble.
--Definitely I'd be forgetting at least a few of my problems long about now. (Very similar to the previous 'cap, sorry. But so *yummy*!)
--Hmmm...he's calling her "baby" pretty consistently in this scene, which isn't my favorite nickname for a guy to use for me, though in this situation, I could probably deal with it. And when she asks what he'll do if he can't find Marty and get her out of there he says "I'll rob a bank and get tossed in here and we'll have a beautiful co-ed cell together." Which is really bizarre emotionally, in my opinion. What a weird way to comfort her. Though, on pondering it, I'm not sure what else he could say that would be better. He could say "I'd bust you out" but there's a guard in the room with them and Michael was a cop, he knows exactly how poorly that would go over. So he gave her the assurance that she's not alone without saying something that would trip a red flag in the guards. I supposed that does make some sense.
--The bar is called the "Bent Arm" because there are sweaty grunting dudes arm-wrestling in it. I'm not kidding about the grunting. It's nearly indecent.
--Ooooooooo!!
--Michael goes to the rather exotic looking bartender, Kim, orders a beer and asks about Marty, but she denies knowing him. When Michael presses a little, saying that he owes Marty money, she basically handed him over to Butch, the grunting arm-wrestling champion. Hee!
--The bartender's not particularly subtle and goes to the phone right there behind the bar in front of god and everyone to call *someone* as soon as Michael's back is almost turned. So he tells KITT to get the number on the outgoing call.
--Heee!! Michael's totally losing the arm wrestling match when KITT speaks up through the comlink, startling Butch and giving Michael his chance to win. :D
--I think that's a new belt buckle. I've never noticed it having a "K" on it before and I've been ::koff:: paying a certain amount of attention to it. Just, you know, in the interest of, erm, research, yeah...oh, who am I kidding?
--Mmmmm!!
--I absolutely love them riding along and Michael just letting KITT drive. :D That's a Thing Of Great Happiness.
--So they go haring off 400+ miles to see who's at the address associated with the number the bartender called. It's a thin lead, but the only one they've got.
--Michael: "Besides it's a beautiful day for a drive." Then he leans back and closes his eyes, letting KITT handle it. EEee!! I love that! :D
--Eeee!! They're cutting a hundred miles off the trip by cutting across the desert on a dirt road that they're going 160 miles an hour on. :D Eee! (Which in Montana, at least today, would be perfectly legal. Montana's dirt roads don't have a speed limit--the only restraint on how fast you can go is how much abuse your tires can take.)
--So they met with Cheryl in Albuquerque and went 450 or so miles to a town that's on the coast with a big port area. There's no ocean 450 miles from Albuquerque, is there? Looking at a map, I'd say at *least* 600 miles.
--This is Marty. He's a whiny schlemiel. Here he's with the cops, whining about how he wants to go home now. We'll see a lot of Marty.
--These are the cops. For a change in this show they're neither useless nor corrupt. They're not *great* but certainly better than most other officers of the law KR gives us. Cop1:
--And Cop2 (who I keep wanting to call The Chin That Walks Like A Man):
--Apparently Marty is known for "creative" accounting and works for the Bad Guys. The cops are trying to do an Al Capone and get to the bad guy through his skeezy accounting practices. And his nebbishy accountant.
--Not only is Marty the McGuffin in the episode, everyone has a deadline. Michael's got 2 days to get this wrapped up and get onto the case Devon gave him. Cheryl's got an unspecified but *short* time before her case goes to trial (quoi??, shouldn't she have more time for the defense to prepare a case?). And Cop1 and The Chin have to get their case against Marty's Boss to the Grand Jury soon, again non-specified.
--Oh, yum...ever so very very yum.
--The hand at Michael's back in that previous 'cap is Cop1 holding a gun on him. They're all at Marty's door. Apparently Michael's mere presence at Marty's is suspicious enough for Cop1 to draw his firearm on an unarmed and un-resisting person. Huh. I might have to revise my opinion of the cops in this episode.
--::fans self::
--So Cop1's not believing Michael when Michael tells him why he was at Marty's door. And Cop1 can't be bothered to get off his high horse and call the damned police where Cheryl's being held to follow up on the veracity of it. Definitely revising my opinion.
--Yeah, Cop1's a total ass. He's not *corrupt*, but he's just a complete jackass.
--And, here's the last of our cast of characters--Al, the Bad Guy and Marty's employer. He's the owner of some sort of business, possibly shipping--they have a warehouse anyway--called Falcon Enterprises.
--Marty's trying to quit, but Al won't let him.
--Michael follows Marty into a health club, spends a moment ogling the girls doing aerobics, and then (after failing to get Marty to talk to him) runs into The Chin, who's a total tool and takes him to Cop1.
--And yay, KITT gets to use the Microwave Jammer toy that Bonnie gave him in the last episode. :D I do love that little bit of continuity. He's blowing the power to Al's business (Falcon Enterprises) so they're required to call in a maintenance guy. Which Michael's all dressed to pose as.
--EEEEe!! Michael: "Keep your micro jam going, okay KITT? I'll be back in a little while. Don't blow a fuse, huh?" KITT: "On the contrary, the sensation is quite intoxicating." Michael: "Well, try and stay sober until I get back." Eeee!! OMG I love it that KITT's capable of, erm, enjoying the sensation of using the micro jam. :D
--Ooooo!!
--The Goon in the foreground is Al's muscle. The reason I've capped this is because he's wearing this absolutely atrocious shirt (WTF is up with those sleeves, they wind out *flapping* hen he walks) and has this perfectly horrible stringy hair. And just, ick. This doesn't even show his face, which is not any more attractive than the rest of him. Basically, if I have to look at him, so do you. Sometimes I'm not a nice person.
--So Michael's experienced and has pretty good instincts, so he figured out from just a minute or two of talking to Marty that Falcon Enterprises is up to something shady and that's why the cops are interested in Marty. What he didn't know was that Al and the Goon were listening in.
--Somehow Michael convinces Marty to go with him, though they never show exactly how. Al and the Goon are trying to stop them. So we get a fight and chase in the factory with Al and the Goon on forklifts.
--Michael's calling for KITT to come help. :D I love that!! And I love that KITT busts through the loading dock door (and a great big stack of boxes) to save his ass. :D
--But in all the kerfuffle, the McGuffin got lost Marty gets away. Michael, the cops and Al all wind out looking for him.
--Here's my apology for making you look at the picture of the ugly Goon.
--Michael calls in to Devon to ask for another couple of days before he has to get to the case Devon gave him only to find that Cheryl's trial is the next day. And Michael's lost Marty and doesn't have any good leads to go on. Oh dear.
--Really, Marty isn't so much of a schlemiel as all that. He's pretending to be a bum sleeping on a park bench (with a newspaper over his face) watching as people come and go from his apartment (first it was Al and the Goon, then Cop1 and The Chin, Michael's on his way now). Pretty clever. He's whiny, spineless, and annoying and bad things happen to him, but he's not an idiot.
--Oooo!!
--So Michael's managed to get Marty on board with the idea of helping Cheryl out. His plan is for them to break into Falcon Enterprises and steal Marty's accounting books. Then they'll turn the books over to the cops and hopefully Cop1 will turn from a dick into a man and let Michael whisk Marty away to Albuquerque to testify on Cheryl's behalf.
--Eeeeee!! OMG! Michael: "KITT, when we go in, if we're not back in one hour call the police." KITT: "Be careful, Michael." Michael: "Aren't I always?" KITT: "You don't want me to answer that question." Eee!!
--Michael's trying to break into Falcon Enterprises with Marty, who's completely useless. In the process of getting Marty over the fence, Michael's com-link to KITT just got broken. Oh, dear.
--And KITT got spotted by a guard who called Al.
--LOL! Marty has a panic attack so Michael takes him "out of this environment" by having him close his eyes and imagine himself on a boat sailing around a tropical island with the girl of Marty's dreams (her name is Alice) on the bow and Marty's rubbing oil on her shoulders. LOL! And Marty's totally into this little fantasy and gets back with the program of opening the safe and stealing the books.
--Having been made by the guards and lost contact with Michael, KITT micro jams the electrical lock on the gate and drives into the Falcon Enterprises complex. My guess is that he's trying to get Michael in scanner range, though they never exactly say.
--While they were inside the sun came up. Oh dear.
--Heee!! KITT's right there when they walk outside, but so are Al and the Goon with guns on them. :D But KITT makes like the police are there and have the place surrounded and creates a distraction. Go KITT! :D
--Marty [looking at KITT's dash]: "What is all this?" Michael: "It's a computer, Marty." Marty: "But how does it manage to drive itself." Michael: "It just does." Hee!!
--Michael seems to be about at the end of his patience with whiny Marty. Not too surprising, so am I. He really is a bit of a loss.
--Marty: "And I suppose it talks too..." KITT: "On a variety of subjects. What do you care to discuss, Mr. Keen?"
--Oh, I wish I could get a better cap of Michael's smile as soon as KITT starts talking. Sot of a half smile, but there's so much in it. I love how much pleasure he takes in KITT. I really really do!
--So Michael calls Cop1 and The Chin on the police radio and arranges a meeting to hand over the books (with the implication that he's also handing over Marty, though that's not really his intention).
--Michael and Al are doing a fairly high speed chase through a residential area. They're just lucky it's awfully early in the morning and no one's really out yet.
--Now Marty's threatening to get car sick--causing both KITT and Michael some consternation.
--Michael's taking some care to lead Al and the Goon straight to the cops.
--Eeee!! Michael's pushing the Joy Button (aka Turbo Boost) again. He always gets the biggest grin. :D
--Oooo! Yum!
--And now that Michael's solved his case for him, Cop1's apologizing for being a dick and lets Michael take Marty to Albuquerque to testify in Cheryl's case.
--And we end with Michael, Cheryl and Marty back at the arm-wrestling bar. Michael and Cheryl start macking on each other leaving poor nebbishy Marty there feeling like a third wheel.
--And Michael gets manhandled by Butch the grunting armwrestler at the very end.
--::sniffs:: There's no KITT anywhere at the end here. I don't like that. I don't like that at all.
FINAL VERDICT: Given the way they were smooching with Marty right there, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Michael and Cheryl got it on after they wrapped up their celebration with Marty at the bar. At least assuming that Butch hasn't broken Michael's arm. What surprises me is what appears to be some significant emotional depth to a relationship that there's no reason to think is any more important than any of the other transient women in Michael's life. I suppose that if I'd been arrested for a crime I didn't commit and I met a guy I knew worked in something like private investigations (he posed as an insurance investigator for Robin in "Deadly Maneuvers"), I might call that person even if we weren't all that close. And crises do bring people closer, at least temporarily. It does seem a little weird though. Anyway, I'd be willing to call this one almost definite.
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